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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. United States

6:21-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Biden Administration's efforts to use systemic prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement. On April 6, 2021, the states of Texas and Louisiana filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Immigration and Nation…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coronel v. Decker

1:20-cv-02472 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 20, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 2023

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, federal district judge Allison Nathan (SDNY) granted emergency relief on March 27, 2020, requiring ICE to release seven at-risk detainees from immigration detention in light of the grave threat posed by congregate detention during the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 20, 2020, seven persons held in civil immigration detention centers in the New York City area -- who because of serious and chronic medical conditions face a significant risk of severe illness or death i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Farm Labor Organizing Committee v. Roy Cooper

1:17-cv-01037 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and several private parties filed this action November 15, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. They named North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Administrative Office of the Courts Director Marion R. Warren as defendants. The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a private practitioner served as plaintiffs’ counsel. At issue was a North Carolina state law which limited the ability of farmworkers to or…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2:21-cv-00194 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Bostock v. Clayton County prevents Texas from maintaining gender-discriminatory employment policies (e.g., on bathrooms and pronouns) and from requiring mandatory reporting of some youth sex-change procedures.  On September 20, 2021, Texas, as the plaintiff, brought a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas [Amarillo] challenging June 15, 2021 guidance from the EEOC which interpreted e…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
F.V. v. Barron

1:17-cv-00170 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit about Idaho transgender people's ability to change their birth certificate sex listings, and to do so without having to disclose on their birth certificates that they are transgender. On April 18, 2017, a transgender woman born in Idaho brought a lawsuit against the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW). The plaintiff brought the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho and was represented by both a private law firm and by Lambda Legal Defense and E…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
People First of Alabama v. Merrill

2:20-cv-00619 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit was filed by Alabama voters to temporarily enjoin Alabama’s voting law provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs challenged the witness and photo ID requirement, requiring absentee voters to obtain witness or notary signatures, and submit a photocopy of their ID with their ballot. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin enforcement of the Witness and ID requirement and to allow curbside voting during the primary, municipal, …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hindel v. Husted

2:15-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2015

Closed Date: June 11, 2018

On December 12, 2015 Disability Rights Ohio and the law firm of Brown, Goldstein, & Levy, LLP, brought this case against the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on behalf of three blind Ohio voters and the National Federation of the Blind. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where it was assigned to District Judge George C. Smith. The case raised claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs faced discrimin…